Surprise at the tour start: David Byrne’s first hit the Talking Heads plays for the first time in 19 years.
Since their mini-reunion for the new cinema of your cinema film “Stop Making Sense”, the Talking Heads have been on everyone’s lips again. However, there will be no live comeback for the band, the members already made it clear (and do without a lot of money). Nevertheless, your songs can be heard on stage, because since Tuesday (September 16) singer David Byrne has been on a solo tour in North America.
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In his guest performance in Pittsburgh, the busy musician served alongside some highlights of his new album who is the sky? and a paramore cover (“Hard Times”) also a lot of songs from his old band. Among other things, there were classics such as “Once in A Lifetime”, “Life During War Time”, “Burning Down the House” and “Heaven”.
However, many were amazed when Byrne played an acoustic version of “Psycho Killer” as 17th pieces of the long evening. For 19 years, the first hit of Talking Heads, which is located on her debut Talking Heads 77, has not been heard live from him. His celebrated Broadway Show “American Utopia” also saved the nervous piece, of which the singer once said he wanted to write an Alice Cooper song from the perspective of an art school kid.
During the acoustic appearance, Byrne exchanged his iconic big suit from the Talking Heads era against a blue overall and was accompanied by a crowd of dancers.
David Byrne plays five new songs by Who is the Sky?
For the presentation of his solo repertoire, the 73-year-old rely on title such as “Everybody’s Coming to My House” (as a gospel version) and “Independence Day” and played a total of five tracks of his new album: “Everybody Laughs”, “What is the reason for it?” Downtown Party ”and“ My Apartment is My Friend ”.
David Byrne had already rejected everyone who is now entitled to ask why it is not possible to return the Talking Heads. For him, this would be a “senseless undertaking” because it could not produce anything new and could only bring the magic of the past back into small doses.
How much the music of the Talking Heads lives, the singer now proves every evening when the songs of his first band regularly steal the show of the fresher.